@RollsRoyceRevenge: John Barrowman is NOT campy? I mean, I love him to death, but REALLY?
"For those of you who saw that movie - even those who enjoyed it - you'll know already that something was missing: Anything resembling dramatic tension. Despite all the action and the Liev Schreiber chewing scenery, there was never really a moment where anyone in the audience would've worried about the outcome, because we'd all seen Wolverine in the three X-Men movies already and he definitely seemed alive there*."
We did all see the x-men movies, and not one person in the audience was worried that they were going to kill wolverine in those films either. That's the nature of a franchise in general, certainly not something specific to prequels. You can build dramatic tension around smaller events than whether someone dies or not.
A prequel can be a story in its own right. An origin story, for instance, is still a story. "Backstory" can still be a story. How sad would it be if our lives had only one good story to them? And how much sadder if the fictional characters we created for entertainment did too?
Or are you saying it's possible to have multiple good stories about a character, as long as they're written chronologically? I.E. The Hobbit would have sucked if he'd written it AFTER Lord of the Rings? That's nonsense.
There's nothing inherent in prequels that makes them suck. Shitty prequels are shitty because they are shitty movies or books, not because they're prequels.
@fraying: At first it seems like Walter wrote it, when he matches the type (y) to the typewriter in his lab. In a later episode he shows everyone else, explaining that it's "bellie's" typewriter. And that Bell had written it.
Though he was less than honest about the drug trials, so it may still turn out otherwise.
Here's a link to a post on a website you might know, called io9, where they talk about it NOT being steampunk!
[io9.com]
I love this series. Far superior to Criminal, which I enjoy too. But Sleeper is just darker and more fun at the same time. I've only read the first Incognito, but I'm hoping it has some of Sleeper's magic.
@Joey Comeau:
"just off camera, something spectacular is happening."
This is just how I felt, seeing the movie.
This is a great post Meredith!
I thought the lens flares worked exactly the way he wanted them to. When I first heard people complaining, I had already seen the movie twice, and I couldn't believe that something like that was bothering people. It is perhaps unrealistic, but it's consistent and it certainly creates a mood. I liked it as a stylistic touch!
I can't believe I missed this. I'm gonna stop there tomorrow and see if it's still around. It seems unlikely they'd fly that bastard in for just one day.
Well, I think we've side-stepped our uncanny valley worries.
Well, it is a comic that takes places after a biological disaster that changes how things in the world work. Both are sort of post-disaster, even if one is post apocalyptic and the other isn't. And even if what drew you to Y the Last Man are qualities which are not shared by this particular comic, you can see how some people might have been drawn to Y for the, "survivors struggling to understand and continue after a disaster" aspect, which this comic does seem to share.
